After I had my son Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well, and yet words are not deeds.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player it's time for me to move away from the game.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Classic economic theory based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Cruelty like every other vice requires no motive outside of itself, it only requires opportunity.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

If you had your life to live over again do it overseas.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn the bird waits in the egg and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

We should often blush for our very best actions if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

The light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

For the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others the real underlying motive is a love of popularity and a desire to pose as a philanthropist or reformer....If your real desire is to do good there is no need to wait for money before you do it, you can do it now this very moment and just where you are.

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Living is not enough, it has no value by itself. It is the motives the feelings the thoughts the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

God made man to go by motives and he will not go without them any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Things done well and with a care exempt themselves from fear.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I don't try to control my days.

Sometimes I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart the purity of mind the holiness of motive.

If people take anything from my music it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

How to gain how to keep how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do and of all they are willing to endure.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955, later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road, in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track but weak anywhere else.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

No matter where you go - there you are.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

This is true, virtually all edible substances and many automotive products are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.